Lewis v. Mears’s Empirical Analysis
297 F.2d 101 · 1961
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably Lewis v. Seanor Coal Co. (1967), 368 F. Supp. 501 - C. Albert Sauter Co., Inc. v. Richard S. Sauter Co., Inc. (1973)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Lewis v. Benedict Coal Corp. · Burke v. Dulaney · Lewis v. Lowry · Smilow v. Dickerson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence to show that there is not an agreement at all is admissible”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.